United Kingdom, July 30 -- Catherine, Princess of Wales has personally curated a new museum display.

The 43-year-old princess - who is the Royal Patron of the V+A - visited the new V+A East Storehouse in London last month and was given a behind-the-scenes tour by the facility's curatorial team to find out more about why objects are collected and how they are cared for and displayed.

She then got to work with staff to select items from the museum's collections for her own "mini display" called Makers and Creators, which will be exhibited until early next year.

Among the items chosen by the princess was a watercolour painting by Peter Rabbit creator Beatrix Potter - a distant relative of Catherine through her great-great-great uncle - an...